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unearthly

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un⋅earth⋅ly

  [uhn-urth-lee]
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–adjective
1. seeming not to belong to this earth or world: unearthly beauty.
2. supernatural; ghostly; unnaturally strange; weird: an unearthly scream.
3. out of the ordinary; unreasonable or absurd: to get up at an unearthly hour.
Origin:
1605–15; un- 1 + earthly

Related forms:
un⋅earth⋅li⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
2. preternatural, spectral. See weird.
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un·earth·ly   (ŭn-ûrth'lē)   
adj.   un·earth·li·er, un·earth·li·est

  1. Not of this earth; preternatural; supernatural.

  2. Unnaturally strange and frightening. See Synonyms at weird.

  3. Ridiculously unreasonable or uncustomary; absurd: called me at an unearthly hour.

un·earth'li·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
unearthly

  1. mod.
    weird; terrible. : There was an unearthly smell coming out of the kitchen.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

unearthly 
1611, "heavenly, sublime," from un- (1) "not" + earthly (see earth). Sense of "ghostly, weird" first recorded 1802.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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